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Tony Sarg

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Tony Sarg (1882 - 1942) was active/lived in New York / England.  Tony Sarg is known for Children's book illustration, marionette making, design.

Tony Sarg was know as a children's book illustrator and for reviving the marionette theatre in the United States. When he was a young man, his father had wanted him to pursue a military career. At age 17 he was commissioned as a lieutenant in the horse artillery of the German army. He loved to draw, and at age 23, left Germany to live in England.

In London, he worked for an ad agency and designed the famous lion trademark for Lyon's marmalade. He left the ad agency to draw for magazines, illustrating old jokes from newspaper files.

After watching 50 performances by the great puppet master, Holden, in London, Sarg made some marionettes and established his own theatre at the Old Curiosity Shop. He came to this country in 1915 to illustrate books, and design barber shops for children in department stores. Touring with marionettes in the 1920s made him famous.

In the story books, Sarg devised animal characters and sometimes created memorable   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1618 characters.]  Artist bio

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16 Book References for Tony Sarg
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2001 Reed, Walt The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000 The Society of Illustrators 452 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1995 Cohn, Jan Covers of the Saturday Evening Post Seventy Years of Outstanding Illustration 298 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1984 Reed, Walt and Roger The Illustrator in America, 1880-1980: A Century of Illustration 355 Yes
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1968 Birchman, Willis Faces and Facts about 26 Contemporary Artists (illustrators) 81 No
1966 Gardner, Albert Ten Eyck History of Water Color in America 160 Yes
1966 Reed, Walt The Illustrator in America 1900-1960s 272 Yes
1963 Hutchison, Harold F London Transport Posters 0 Yes
1938 Bolton, Theodore American Book Illustrators Bibliographic Checklist of 123 Artists 290 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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